1 In early

2 Nooded

3 Hello?

4 I’ll wait

5

How in the world do people think up the crazy shit?

6 Title checks out.

7 If pissing away taxpayer money is wrong, I don’t wanna be right

8 Oh, how we used to dream of being raped by Donald Trump! Instead of raping us, Donald Trump forced us to compete in an "Apprentice" style reality show where we'd have to sell hot dogs to dirty bums! Whoever lost was sold to the bums as meat!

Boy, Trump must have thought the sun shined out of your ass to rape you!

9 The developers donated to politicians, most of the funds ttoo.

10
"for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."

Why don't they use spoons?

11 Lucius Fabricius, where are you?

12 I have seen some stupid shit but this tops the list at this point.

13 If they made the bridge on time and under budget, the "right people" wouldn't have gotten a lot of money that they very much deserve.

Government exists to ensure that the market's failure to pay these wonderful, moral people like CEOs instead of baristas, which they are barely qualified to be.

14 Can you imagine an infrastructure project on the scale of the current L.A. freeway system being undertaken by todays CA leadership? I'm surprised that they can even maintain it.

15 Why don't they use spoons?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Milt the stilt!

16 Obviously this is a waste of money, but how do you even get the wildlife to use the bridge?

17 Its hard to believe that a clearly unbalanced leftist woman put in charge was unable to do her job

18 It's open season on pillaging the California taxpayers. They're not even trying to hide it.

19 You know, by Ukrainian standards, 25 mil is not that bad.

20 Rookie mistake, I read the content, went to to grab the quote too.

21 But at a cost of $114 million and climbing for one incomplete bridge? No. You have once again fucked everything up for everyone, including the animals.

I like the forty foot wall the animals have to climb to get onto the bridge, that's some very fine design.

22 Has anyone seen the bridge??
- some 70's singer

23 Lot of people with their hands out in California. It's expensive buying those votes.

24 Obviously this is a waste of money, but how do you even get the wildlife to use the bridge?
Posted by: Methos


You put up "Cross Here" signs.

25 This bridge was always pure grift and handouts to leftwing activists and special interests. I don’t think the concept of animal bridge even makes sense. The animals cross wherever they want to cross. It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge.

26 Wildlife doesn't even need dirt to cross the f'ing road! It is a giant scam.

27 So every picture of this Pratt women she’s in the middle of running her mouth, probably uptalking with vocal fry, no doubt.

She talked her way into $114 million.
And people actually listened.

28 "for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."

I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.

29 I admit I'm no biologist, but I do have a question:

Why do butterflies need a bridge?

Don't they have something inherent to their biological structure that's *better* than a bridge?

Oh, I dunno, let's call them "wings."

30 17 Its hard to believe that a clearly unbalanced leftist woman put in charge was unable to do her job
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Unfair. Her job was to piss away money. She’s great at her job

31 The animal ten miles down the road is still going to cross the highway and get hit.

32
We just want animals crossing here, not attempting to build animal cities.

Going to animal city
Animal city here I come
Got some crazy little weasels there
And I'm a gonna get me one

33 Why did the chicken cross the road?

34 It couldn't, you hater!

35 >>>25 This bridge was always pure grift and handouts to leftwing activists and special interests. I don’t think the concept of animal bridge even makes sense. The animals cross wherever they want to cross. It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge.

eh, animals learn to follow trails to water and and such. they'll eventually make a trail to the bridge, which will be a safer area than the highway.

36 You put up "Cross Here" signs.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (IBsfd)

Put up signs reading 'Free Deer blowjobs' in Deer at either end.

37 I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.
Posted by: fd at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (vFG9F)
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For $114 million, I bet we could use their bones to build the bridge.

38 I know little about constructing bridges, but give me a $114 million and I'll have it done in a year and profit $100 million.

39 "It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge."

Animals are lazy, just like leftists, and do eventually figure out that bridges make crossing streams a lot easier. I've seen bears, bison and down south, Australian possums use bridges instead of getting their little toes wet.

40 Remember when $114 million was real money and NOT a rounding error?

I wonder if the animal crossing leads the poor creatures to Democratic sex den? Transgenderism was cute but wait until you see what's next.

41 Where's that confounded bridge?!

42 Shit, I can fix their bridge to nowhere problem right now

Just call it a bird sanctuary.

43 So, if it top O duh bridge has EXPERTS making it natural, how comes it don't look like the surrounding area?

44 Compared to the "high speed train to nowhere" this is nothing.

Billions stolen and not a mile of track laid.

45 eh, animals learn to follow trails to water and and such. they'll eventually make a trail to the bridge, which will be a safer area than the highway.

They just need a few more billion dollars to finish the ramps!

46 A deer, skunk and coyote walk into a bar.

47 >>> Why do butterflies need a bridge?

Because they identify as beavers.

48 That's the LA cougar? I would have thought LA could do better than that.

49 I dunno
Could be a picnic pavilion
Suicide jump spot
Great possibilities

50 So $144M x 0 feet = , um, carry the 0

I am stuck

51 >>>(Yes, the bridge must also serve as a path for butterflies. Think of the additional engineering requirements to bear the weight of several dozen butterflies.)

lol I might have bought that if I could figure out how to herd butterflies onto a bridge.

Butterfly bridge image:
https://is.gd/6SW4ko

52 Dog and Butterfly

53 Put up signs reading 'Free Deer blowjobs' in Deer at either end.

Antler? I didn't even know 'er.

54 21 But at a cost of $114 million and climbing for one incomplete bridge? No. You have once again fucked everything up for everyone, including the animals.

I like the forty foot wall the animals have to climb to get onto the bridge, that's some very fine design.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (PYyV9)

And meanwhile, we can't get the State to fund the widening of our bridges, or Highway 99 here in the Valley.

Partly because of the on again off again No Speed Rail project... where after 20 years they don't even have the ROUTE actually planned yet.

55 I'm surprised there's not already a homeless camp up there.

56 I HATE it when you get one of those unprecedented biodiversity collapses! It always happens on a Monday, too!

57 Don't they need to fund a program to teach the animals to use the bridge?

And if it's for cougars, shouldn't there be teenage boys on the top?

58 Just one more reason Gavin Newsom should never been within a thousand miles of the Oval Office.

59 The idea behind the bridge is good, it's the execution that sucks. Virtually unlimited government money attracts grifters like flies to $hit.

60 >>>Can you imagine an infrastructure project on the scale of the current L.A. freeway system being undertaken by todays CA leadership? I'm surprised that they can even maintain it.
Posted by: Halfhand at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (iymdz)


HAHAHA!!! Oh they don't Halfhand, they don't.

61 Why do butterflies need a bridge?

Because they identify as beavers.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 05:46 PM (n5tGW)

Why does God need a starship?

62 I see a lot of critter bridges in my travels in the Rocky Mountain West. They are far more modest by comparison, and in addition to the bridge itself, there is a system of high fences to further coax the critters to the bridge. They are always over high traffic roads where known migration routes exist. Does not eliminate roadkill, but I believe it certainly cuts it down pretty effectively. And the fences even have ramps that allow the critter out, but not in. Do not underestimate the derpiness of a mule deer.

That California one is just plain stupid.

63 California highways are 3rd world at best.

64 Just one more reason Gavin Newsom should never been within a thousand miles of the Oval Office.

Honestly he is vapid and drugged up enough he'd be another Biden; a platform for the leftists to use to get power and money.

65 Wow. A bridge that spans a whole 10 car lanes.

66 How much did the EIR cost?

Just kidding. Projects that SAVE DA EARF(tm) never have to do one. Whereas if there's a mud puddle on your property, the EPA will be up your ass quicker than you can say 'Eminent Domain' calling it a wetland.

67 I just went to the DOGE website.

Are they gone now? Nothing showed up.

I'm hoping it's just been deemed inefficient to have Canadians looking at the site.

68 28 "for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."

I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.
Posted by: fd at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

So, $77K per job?

69 I think the overall concept is a great idea, and, in a sane world, easily done. In fact, someone should have thought of this a long time ago.

But shit!

It's in California, where all good and decent things go to die!!!!

70 This bridge was always pure grift and handouts to leftwing activists and special interests. I don’t think the concept of animal bridge even makes sense. The animals cross wherever they want to cross. It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge.

eh, animals learn to follow trails to water and and such. they'll eventually make a trail to the bridge, which will be a safer area than the highway.
Posted by: ace at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (1wjle)
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Within reasonable geographic distances, yes. But we’re talking about a huge highway and one bridge.

Some predators are smarter and might figure it out, although with predators on the bridge the prey animals will avoid it like the plague. Which will be a huge problem: if the paths become a game trail — which they will, because predators are smart — then the prey animals will avoid the path and cross into traffic.

So yes, I agree with you in theory, but I think in practice even a fully functions bridge — untainted by the smelly slimy taint of CA commie smegma — won’t save wildlife in any meaningful numbers.

71 You can't fix stupid.

I heard that once, or maybe twice.

California voters can't be fixed.

72 And if it's for cougars, shouldn't there be teenage boys on the top?
Posted by: Eeyore

Is this in LA or San Francisco?

73 There are these kind of bridges all over the place, they just don't usually cost this much and are done faster, heh.

74 >>I think the overall concept is a great idea, and, in a sane world, easily done. In fact, someone should have thought of this a long time ago.

They have. Also thought of putting wildlife tunnels under bridges.

75 This is what happens when you put crazy in charge.

Never fund crazy.

76 A wildlife bridge in L.A.? What's it for, raccoons and rats?

77 California should just bury all highways underground.

78 Can you imagine an infrastructure project on the scale of the current L.A. freeway system being undertaken by todays CA leadership? I'm surprised that they can even maintain it.
Posted by: Halfhand at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (iymdz)

they can't.

79 Obviously this is a waste of money, but how do you even get the wildlife to use the bridge?
Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (vSvIl)

HR will hold mandatory training sessions for the wildlife. But first, they'll need a budget for "Train-the-Trainer" sessions for getting bona fide, qualified, certified trainers.

80 It's grift all the way down.

81 This would be worth it if one cougar would maul this thieving bitch right at the entrance of Critter Creek Bridge live on KTLA

82 There are thousands of these things in the mountains, some bridges, get this, even go under the highway.

83 Every big budget project is grift to environmental groups, lawyers. Unions, land agents

84 I'll bet all my quatloos that few if any of the 'activists' put in charge of projects like this one and other environmental BS crap funded with tax dollars, could organize and manage a Cub Scout field trip to an ice cream shop. Assigning or hiring them to manage anything with a budget and schedule is imbecilic.

85 77 California should just bury all highways underground.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (+nEug)

There you go. Then we just wait for the earthquake to solve all the problems.

86 Houston did something like this in like less than 2 years.

And to my eye, it looks like the Houston span was roughly the same as this one.

But I like how CA did the last part first, the center.

But that they also landscaped it.
Before the sides were done.
With no way to access it or maintain it or water it.
But, it's the paths that do it for me--how else are the animals going to know where to walk?

87 What happens when the predatory animals figure out if they just lie in wait at either end of the bridge, a veritable buffet will walk right in for the taking?

And who is going to "maintain" this bridge once it is fully built?

88 California has pedestrian bridges over the freeways in about 210,000 spots. They could have just built a double-wide and left out the dirt....or will their little feetsies get hot?

89 They have. Also thought of putting wildlife tunnels under bridges.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 18, 2026 05:54 PM (viF8m)

In Wyoming there are a lot of 72" and 84" culverts that allow cattle to pass beneath from one grazing area to another.

90 A wildlife bridge in L.A.? What's it for, raccoons and rats?
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (UjdFS)

I drive on that highway a lot.

Cougars live in those hills even today. Lots of unusable back country. There is an Indian Museum within walking distance of my house at the base of a steep ridge. Guy their said the day I visited a mountain lion took down a deer at the place a few days before.

91
A contracted soil scientist said his process involves assessing local dirt to "rebuild it ... as close to nature as possible."

How about you just pop on over to Home Depot, pick up however many 16-foot wide rolls of linoleum you'd need to cover the length of the entire span and then roll them out in a single afternoon? And bring along some of your preferred workforce members from the parking lot when you do so.

92 Based upon observation, not all cougars wear sweaters.

93 This bridge was always pure grift and handouts to leftwing activists and special interests. I don’t think the concept of animal bridge even makes sense. The animals cross wherever they want to cross. It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge.

eh, animals learn to follow trails to water and and such. they'll eventually make a trail to the bridge, which will be a safer area than the highway.
Posted by: ace at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (1wjle)
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Within reasonable geographic distances, yes. But we’re talking about a huge highway and one bridge.

Some predators are smarter and might figure it out, although with predators on the bridge the prey animals will avoid it like the plague. Which will be a huge problem: if the paths become a game trail — which they will, because predators are smart — then the prey animals will avoid the path and cross into traffic.

So yes, I agree with you in theory, but I think in practice even a fully functions bridge — untainted by the smelly slimy taint of CA commie smegma — won’t save wildlife in any meaningful numbers.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 18, 2026 05:53 PM

There will be signs posted - No Predatory Actions Within 100ft"

94 But, it's the paths that do it for me--how else are the animals going to know where to walk?

Yeah I am baffled that they felt they had to landscape it like a back yard. That's several hundred thou right there for no purpose at all. All it needs is dirt.

95 If the government does it it's not stealing. It's cost overruns. Suck it, dweebs!

I hate to say it but there needs to be lawyers involved in these deals between government and the people involved. Whether the people are charities or taxpayers. You can't trust the government to do the right thing.

96 >>Within reasonable geographic distances, yes. But we’re talking about a huge highway and one bridge.

In many areas where wildlife is common, particularly car killing wildlife like deer, fencing is used to funnel animals to crossings or block them. Can't always see it from the road because it's often hidden but it's not uncommon.

97 Early contender for the bridge name is Cesar Chavez Wildlife and Rape Bridge.

98 This seems like a waste on a pratical level, and more about the people supporting it.

Here's a freakin clue. Quit anthropomorphizing skunks, possums, and squirrels. They're dumber than AOC, and aren't inclined to see a grass bridge as something useful.

Hell, ever see a guinea hen (quite possibly the dumbest animals on the planet)....they'll stand in the middle of the road trying to see if the car that's about to flatten them is a Ford or a Chevy.

99 82 There are thousands of these things in the mountains, some bridges, get this, even go under the highway.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (n5tGW)

I've been watching a lot of horror movies. You don't want to go under the highway.


Great news! From ew.
We have a reason to go to the movie theaters again!

"Jane Fonda to star in movie adaptation of Virginia Evans' best-seller The Correspondent

The "Book Club" star will lead the film as a retired lawyer with a penchant for writing letters."

100 I guess another David Toad Tunnel was a poor idea.

101 Beth Pratt, if you're going to cosplay as a construction worker, pro tip: do not waer your hardhat like that. Because that's retarded.

102 Hell, ever see a guinea hen (quite possibly the dumbest animals on the planet)....they'll stand in the middle of the road trying to see if the car that's about to flatten them is a Ford or a Chevy.

Yeah but they look good doing it

103 And to my eye, it looks like the Houston span was roughly the same as this one.

But I like how CA did the last part first, the center.

But that they also landscaped it.
Before the sides were done.
With no way to access it or maintain it or water it.
But, it's the paths that do it for me--how else are the animals going to know where to walk?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 18, 2026 05:56 PM (HXT0k)

Coyote packs follow the interstate routes down when seasonally moving inland or to the coast. Some nights I can hear them howling or yelping right outside my back wall. Kill lots of little dogs and such.

104 How in the world do people think up the crazy shit?

Posted by: four seasons at March 18, 2026 05:38 PM (3ek7K)

There's a Somali blogger who does "Ways to Scam the American People Out of Money".

105 Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because Gav built him a wildlife bridge.

106
Beth Pratt is the type of person that folks in a wagon train would agree to leave behind by arising at 2:00 AM, quickly and silently packing up and hitching up, and then pulling out, leaving her to fend for her incompetent self as the Native Americans come on by around about dawn for predation day.

107 California voters can't be fixed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 18, 2026 05:54 PM

It's not that they can't be fixed, it's that I can't do them all by myself.

108 Why don't they build them somewhere else, where the poor creatures can cross more safely?

109 Looks like Steve Hilton could be the next governor of California, and with their retarded electoral runoff system the two candidates may both be Republicans (the other being sheriff whatshisface).

Karma

110 Animal bridges do seem to work.


https://tinyurl.com/mw54wvt8

111 What the actual fuck is this?

112 Coyote packs follow the interstate routes down when seasonally moving inland or to the coast. Some nights I can hear them howling or yelping right outside my back wall.

My cousin and her husband have a little farm in Nebraska, they have two HUGE fluffy dogs that live outside. They are big and derpy and friendly but if a coyote shows up they turn into predator berserkers. Saves the chickens and turkeys and other critters.

113 Get your car a 'roo guard.

114
"for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."

I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.
Posted by: fd

For as much as they pull numbers out of their asses, it is no wonder that leftists are such huge fans of butt sex.

115 We did a wildlife overcrossing in WA state over I-90. It took theee years ( completed in 2016) and cost 6.2 million dollars.

116 someone I know well works for CalTrans...... this bridge, as was noted Ace's comments, spans across10 lanes of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles...... as a result...... the bridge has to be built to FHWA and AASHTO bridge standards regardless that it only holds dirt and is only going to be used by animals. ie, it has to be built to FEDERAL standards as it crosses over a HIGHWAY. All bridges are subject to Federal guidelines and rules. That is how you get a $100M bridge for skunks and deer.

117 Since it's California, will they be charging tolls?

118 My cousin and her husband have a little farm in Nebraska, they have two HUGE fluffy dogs that live outside. They are big and derpy and friendly but if a coyote shows up they turn into predator berserkers. Saves the chickens and turkeys and other critters.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Probably Great Pyrenees. Killer dog.

119 The first real "wildlife bridge" was in NJ, Down by Newark. Or Elizabeth.

It was a hangover from the effort to end the interstate highway program. It may not have been Newark, maybe Secaucus -- some smelly city SW on NYC. Can you imagine what kind of wildlife we are talking about there?

The bridge was completed in the 80s. That meant they could finish the highway below, which was thwarted from crossing some refuge for rats and hobos.

So there was an attack, parry, counterthrust, ... going on. Left said "Sorry, can't build there!" and finally the sane people said "OK, we make bridge for your fucking rats."

Now CA says "Fine, make a bridge, but first you will blow me (and pay me $100 million dollars.")

120 Coyote packs follow the interstate routes down when seasonally moving inland or to the coast. Some nights I can hear them howling or yelping right outside my back wall.

My cousin and her husband have a little farm in Nebraska, they have two HUGE fluffy dogs that live outside. They are big and derpy and friendly but if a coyote shows up they turn into predator berserkers. Saves the chickens and turkeys and other critters.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:02 PM (PYyV9)

doesn't work for a 4 pound lapdog nearly as well. Or one of my cats that could not always be kept inside.

121 Fearless prediction: The bridge will increase wildlife vehicle accidents because they will follow the game trail but balk at going up an artificial hill when they can just walk across the road.

122 I had a neighbor who bought a bunch of Guinea Hens becuase the keep the trick population down. The foxes were looking at each other like “dis we doe and go to heaven?”.

123 IIRC, Clarkson and company covered this some years back. In two years, something like 3 squirrels used a bridge...

124
She trained with ManBearPig in his Climate Reality Leadership Corps! Serious, you guys!

125 I recall driving from Colorado to Montana in the late winter, and seeing dozens of bald eagles feasting on roadkill.

Bald eagles are one step up from turkey vultures, in reality.

126 Can't they just offer a shuttle bus service for the critters?

127 I'm familiar with that area. Just up the road from this bridge is the Liberty Canyon underpass which is a known pathway for wildlife to cross. Which leads them into an open space. So there was really no need for this boondoggle. Also, just up the road from me are deer jumping ramps along the 101 in Santa Margarita. The ramps are just giant piles of dirt to the height of the fences along the 101 so that if deer come onto the highway, they can go up the dirt ramps to get over the fence.

128 Now CA says "Fine, make a bridge, but first you will blow me (and pay me $100 million dollars.")
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (uBTab)

The highway below has been finished for decades, this bridge is a complete idiocy. It isn't even near the bike and hiking trails about the county.

129 Judge Boesberg has just ordered Trump to complete the bridge and reimburse California for what it had spent, finding the National Highway Safety Act and the Administrative Procedures Act required the federal government to pay for the bridge.

130 I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.
Posted by: fd

So 13,000 fewer future Minnesotans robbing us of untold gazillions? Dammit, now I'm in favor of wildlife crossings.

131 I bet you could just put a big metal pipe across the highway and the critters would use it. Because nature always finds a way.

132 Three squirrels walk onto a bridge...

133 Since it's California, will they be charging tolls?
Posted by: Eeyore at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (AlhUl)

Somebody's got to go back and get a shitload of dimes!

134 They should have tunneled under the highway.

135
I had a neighbor who bought a bunch of Guinea Hens becuase the keep the trick population down...

Do you know to what part of town the tricks migrated? MLK Boulevard, perhaps?

136 Hell, ever see a guinea hen (quite possibly the dumbest animals on the planet)....they'll stand in the middle of the road trying to see if the car that's about to flatten them is a Ford or a Chevy.

Do they were hajibs? Because we have the same animal here in NOVA but they wear hajibs.

137 Great news! From ew.
We have a reason to go to the movie theaters again!

"Jane Fonda to star in movie adaptation of Virginia Evans' best-seller The Correspondent

The "Book Club" star will lead the film as a retired lawyer with a penchant for writing letters."

Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 05:59 PM (Sco7b)

Who the fuck are they making that movie for?

How is that boring shit even a book?

138 Animal bridges do seem to work."

No. Elevated highways, yes.

139 The highway below has been finished for decades, this bridge is a complete idiocy. It isn't even near the bike and hiking trails about the county.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yes, I know. I was making a point. Highways can only exist if the cost of building them is extreme and not worth the effort.

140 I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.




Quick! Give me 1000 bridges!

141 There's a Disney movie in there with animals singing "We're on the bridge to nowhere ..."

142 They should have tunneled under the highway.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (oob1u)
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Not expensive enough. We're getting paid percentages, not flat fees.

143 Who knew communist whores liked letter writing.

144 someone I know well works for CalTrans...... this bridge, as was noted Ace's comments, spans across10 lanes of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles...... as a result...... the bridge has to be built to FHWA and AASHTO bridge standards regardless that it only holds dirt and is only going to be used by animals. ie, it has to be built to FEDERAL standards as it crosses over a HIGHWAY. All bridges are subject to Federal guidelines and rules. That is how you get a $100M bridge for skunks and deer.
Posted by: Monica at March 18, 2026 06:03 PM (u0JHI)

Well that is how you get an expensive bridge, since this is earthquake country and you want to put enough dirt on it to make it a hazard if it collapses.

Taking years to make it with only a few random starts and stop periods is how it gets to 100M.

145 What about the roadkill? You expect me to hunt for food?

146 Bald eagles are one step up from turkey vultures, in reality.

Big raptors are nearly all primarily carrion birds. They'll hunt too but I mean a dead deer is a heck of a lot easier to eat than catching a salmon or a rabbit.

147
The "Book Club" star will lead the film as a retired lawyer with a penchant for writing letters."

With her character do a dive off a swimming raft to overcome her Daddy issues, like she did in "On Golden Pond"?

148 Jane Fonda to star"

Didn't she get an dementia diagnosis?

149 There's a Disney movie in there with animals singing "We're on the bridge to nowhere ..."
Posted by: ShainS at March 18, 2026 06:09 PM (67sdn)
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AKSHUALLY, "Bambi" is a documentary film!

150 I'm going to guess with the next funding they will complete only one ramp up. It'll be a deer suicide bridge.

151 A movie about an old lady who writes letters?

What a thrill. What excitement. People will be beating down the theater doors to get into that one.

152 Quick! Give me 1000 bridges!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 06:09 PM (IBsfd)
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Endorsed! I need a new Subaru.

153 Posted by: Monica at March 18, 2026 06:03 PM (u0JHI)
__________________

Just wait. 30 years from now when it is finally completed, the Democrat state Legislature will approve tolls from animals for its use.

154
someone I know well works for CalTrans...... this bridge, as was noted Ace's comments, spans across10 lanes of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles...... as a result...... the bridge has to be built to FHWA and AASHTO bridge standards regardless that it only holds dirt and is only going to be used by animals. ie, it has to be built to FEDERAL standards as it crosses over a HIGHWAY. All bridges are subject to Federal guidelines and rules. That is how you get a $100M bridge for skunks and deer.
Posted by: Monica

Did they contract the job out to that all-gals, all-the-time firm in Broward County, FL that built the Pancaking Pedestrian Bridge?

'Cause they ought to have done so!

155 Who the fuck are they making that movie for?

How is that boring shit even a book?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (XCUp7)

I've seen some funny short stories consisting of just pretend letters/telegrams. A Civil War history book "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" is just articles from a newspaper over the decades with responses from other civil war generals in rebuttal/support. Think 4 volumes of Ace of Spades from the 1890s.

But a movie is right out.

156 Can't they just offer a shuttle bus service for the critters?
Posted by: fd
.......

Or at least put up and down escalators at each end?
Some of these critters may not be in the best of shape.

157 Ok, California.

There is one woman who can finish that bridge, stampede cattle across it, and then beat the cishet leprechaun patriarchy until they cough up enough gold for all of you to staff your Pacific Highway mansions with an army of newcomers of color, and never pay a cent.

And her name is Katie.

All Power To Porter!

158 Seriously. Musk could have bored under the highway for 1/4 the cost . Animals prefer to go downhill than uphill.

159 Also, the bridge was built specifically for mountain lions. Note that it's been documented that there are only a couple dozen mountain lions living in that area.

From a commenter on the story in the NYP:
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It is well documented that the mountain lions used the Liberty Canyon underpass along with many other animals. Mountain lions & their tracks have been observed at the Calabasas landfill property for decades. Liberty Canyon leads directly to the edge of the landfill & into the Chesebro open space. Mountain lions do not need a $100mil bridge.

160 My brother designed a lot of the California highways in the 60's and 70's. I can only imagine what his reaction to this would be.

161 Just wait. 30 years from now when it is finally completed, the Democrat state Legislature will approve tolls from animals for its use"

Somebody needs to go back and get a shitload of dimes...

162 Why can't we build gently-sloping pedestrian bridges, topped with grass and bushes, for wildlife to cross over safely?

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The Canucks did this in Banff on the TransCanada highway. It’s pretty cool.

163 A movie about an old lady who writes letters?

What a thrill. What excitement. People will be beating down the theater doors to get into that one.

Posted by: Delurker at March 18, 2026 06:11 PM (gtcuf)

Directed by Michael Bay?

164 A movie about an old lady who writes letters?

What a thrill. What excitement. People will be beating down the theater doors to get into that one.

Posted by: Delurker at March 18, 2026 06:11 PM (gtcuf)
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Stupid. Now if she wrote cozy mystery novels...

165 Bald eagles are one step up from turkey vultures, in reality.

Big raptors are nearly all primarily carrion birds. They'll hunt too but I mean a dead deer is a heck of a lot easier to eat than catching a salmon or a rabbit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:10 PM (PYyV9)

Pretty much all predators will eat someone else food if they can get them to leave it. Once in a restaurant I went to the bathroom and 4 yuppies and their dates were all eating my food at the table in Chicago.

166
Where else could that woman, with no discernable skills, much less any discernable common sense, find employment but with gubmint?

In a nutshell, there is our problem.

167 Should have went under.

168 The old lady better be writing letters to a whole lot of people of color and queer folx, or it'll never win an Oscar.

169 Who the fuck are they making that movie for?

How is that boring shit even a book?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (XCUp7)

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The Viet Cong?

170 Liberty Canyon underpass "

Not bridge...

171 My brother designed a lot of the California highways in the 60's and 70's. I can only imagine what his reaction to this would be.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (+nEug)

uh oh, I have a lot of built up rage over this subject...

172 Yes, Yes. Brilliant design, we say!
Finish the bridge!

173 It is well documented that the mountain lions used the Liberty Canyon underpass along with many other animals.

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At least some of California's homicidal predatory animals are documented.

174
I foresee that bridge, filled from stem to stern with "romantic homeless people", and reeking to high heaven of feces and piss, within a year of it being opened.

Count on it.

175 I've seen some funny short stories consisting of just pretend letters/telegrams. A Civil War history book "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" is just articles from a newspaper over the decades with responses from other civil war generals in rebuttal/support. Think 4 volumes of Ace of Spades from the 1890s.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:13 PM (8avO+)
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Some of those discussions got quite heated, such as Longstreet's critique of Lee at Gettysburg. If they'd had a comment thread, Ace would have been wielding the Banhammer like Aragorn going through orcs.

176 I hope they put a drinking fountain in the middle. All that walking is thirsty work.

177 West of Loveland CO there is a store that specializes in cherry jellies and such. A few years ago, a black bear casually pushed in the plate glass window and proceeded to feast for hours.

178 Couldn't they have just put a culvert under the highway?

179 Nuke all the gay butterflies!

180 I went to the bathroom and 4 yuppies and their dates were all eating my food at the table in Chicago.

Yuppies man, what can you do?

181 Three squirrels walk onto a bridge, and the bridge says: Hey, are those nuts in your mouths?

And the squirrels say: yoo begth yerr ash tay rrr.

182 ""Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation" for the bridge that bears the late philanthropist's name."

iirc, Annenberg was a (Chicago?) conservative, but his wife (or whomever) took over and turned it Full Commie (as is their nature). I'm thinking Bill Ayers was involved.

183 The ones in banff are every mile or so I think. There are also really tall fences on the side of the highway to keep the critters from getting on the highway. There are a ton of elk and deer bears you name it around there. From a safety standpoint t it is a good idea, that must prevent a lot of car vs animal collisions.

184 Well, a government filled with left-wing fuck-up grifters is why."

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That about covers it.

Other states do this quickly with no problems. California is fucktarded.

185 134 They should have tunneled under the highway.

and there could be automated shuttles to whisk them from one side to the other at supersonic speeds in an evacuated passage.

186 "I went to the bathroom and 4 yuppies and their dates were all eating my food at the table in Chicago."

Snap 7 necks and leave a survivor to tell the others.

187 Well, it ain't my money...

(Or is it!?!?!??)

188 "Jane Fonda to star in movie adaptation of Virginia Evans' best-seller The Correspondent

The "Book Club" star will lead the film as a retired lawyer with a penchant for writing letters."

Posted by: Stateless

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I just saw a Jane Fonda movie on youtube. Walk on the Wild Side. She played a whore.
She was very very hot, and very very annoying even early on. Intolerably annoying in voice and gesture.

189 Willow'd -- of course, I should've guessed, putting actual research in...

>> 91 Just reading through the day’s posts. Amyl Nitrite Is something gay right? Wiki says it has a psychoactive effect and causes a relaxation of the external anal sphincter.
Posted by: banana Dream - sounds pretty gay at March 18, 2026 04:59 PM (z7/Fg)

Now it is a gay party drug called "poppers," but it was apparently a rock & roll thing back in the day. Well, they said "amyl nitrate" at the time, but now Brave AI says that it is "unsafe" for human consumption and should absolutely not be confused with the recreational drug "amyl nitrite," so what am I to believe? Maybe they meant what they said, and they were in fact doing the "harmful" one they said they were doing.

See for example Anita Pallenberg, who introduced the Rolling Stones to amyl nitrate in 1965, and Richard "Didymus" Washington, who played marimbas on "Sweet Black Angel" but was originally listed as Amyl Nitrate in the credits of their 1972 album Exile on Main St.

"How Anita Pallenberg Transformed the Rolling Stones From ‘Schoolboys’ to Stars"
https://tinyurl.com/24vx7ye5

"The story behind the song"
https://tinyurl.com/3xcnyc82

190
I hope they put a drinking fountain in the middle. All that walking is thirsty work.
Posted by: wth

That will cease working within its first month.

Then there will be human turds in it before the next month is out.

191 I foresee that bridge, filled from stem to stern with "romantic homeless people", and reeking to high heaven of feces and piss, within a year of it being opened.

Count on it.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:17 PM (xG4kz)
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Nice breeze up there, start piling your box shack up against the nice tall outer wall. Take a dump and then fling it onto the road.

192 We in Brattlebora would like to march in harmony acroos that bridge with are furry and featherd friends like Kamala Hariis did at Sellma and Geteysberg.

193 Next up: Killer bobcats attacking unsuspecting sunbathers in Malibu.

194 Why can't we build gently-sloping pedestrian bridges, topped with grass and bushes, for wildlife to cross over safely?

—

The Canucks did this in Banff on the TransCanada highway. It’s pretty cool.
Posted by: Heroq at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (RD49f)

Houston did this at Memorial Park.

195 Will they have a guard at the end asking the animals "What's your favorite color?"

196 171 uh oh, I have a lot of built up rage over this subject...

it's funny because the subject is built-up range

197 Couldn't they have just put a culvert under the highway?
Posted by: toby928(c)

I think they realize it would become hobo central, a fire would break out, and the freeway would be out of commission for months to fix it. Don't think it wouldn't have cost just as much though.

198 Well, it ain't my money...

(Or is it!?!?!??)"

$39 trillion dollars in debt....

199 Next up: Killer bobcats attacking unsuspecting sunbathers in Malibu.

I mean, the bridge dumps them directly next to a housing development LOL

200 "I went to the bathroom and 4 yuppies and their dates were all eating my food at the table in Chicago"

"Yeah, you've got hippies, we need to fumigate"

Cartman

201 I just saw a Jane Fonda movie on youtube. Walk on the Wild Side. She played a whore.
She was very very hot, and very very annoying even early on. Intolerably annoying in voice and gesture.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 18, 2026 06:21 PM (uBTab)
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"Barbarella" was her best work.

202 Golf carts and Lime Scooters for all the disabled migrating critters. It's called equity.

203 Is the bridge designed to accommodate rising sea levels?

204 Nice breeze up there, start piling your box shack up against the nice tall outer wall. Take a dump and then fling it onto the road.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)

An adult, real-life "King of the Hill," complete with buckets of hot urine and feces dumped on the heads of the invaders below.

205
Hell, ever see a guinea hen (quite possibly the dumbest animals on the planet)....they'll stand in the middle of the road trying to see if the car that's about to flatten them is a Ford or a Chevy.
Posted by: Orson

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This is a common misunderstanding. Prey species often have eyes built for defense - they have limited stereo vision and so it is not centered in the eye. That means it has poor resolution. For best resolution, they look with one eye off to side, that is why birds often look at you sideways to see if you are a threat. Problem is that fast moving things only seem to slowly get larger and they do not do well at detecting motion.

If you have good stereo vision, with eyes close together pointing in same direction, you can see the item and see it moving. The tradeoff is limited field of view. Pheasants, deer, etc. will stand in road and stare at oncoming vehicle with one eye. They think standing still makes them harder to see, and while staring to see if it moves, they can not detect it moving straight in. It's not stupidity, it is eyes poorly suited to the threat

206 Also, the bridge was built specifically for mountain lions. Note that it's been documented that there are only a couple dozen mountain lions living in that area.

From a commenter on the story in the NYP:
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It is well documented that the mountain lions used the Liberty Canyon underpass along with many other animals. Mountain lions & their tracks have been observed at the Calabasas landfill property for decades. Liberty Canyon leads directly to the edge of the landfill & into the Chesebro open space. Mountain lions do not need a $100mil bridge.
Posted by: beckster at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (I7J9

Lions need a huge territory. The young ones get driven out or killed by the older males. That area is already overpopulated, truthfully they shouldn't be there. There is not enough space for them, California is retarded. As a state Cal has way too many lions, they are constantly in the news eating someone or their pets.

207 Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side cartoons would have had a field day with this boondoggle. Imagine a deer family complete with mama deer with her cat-eye glasses, apron, and beehive hairdo tapping her hoof in disgust while waiting for this to be built.

208
I worked one summer in the government-provided parks and recreation sector -- I know whereof I speak!

Cleaning public restrooms was a real eye-opener, I can tell you!

209 Houston did this at Memorial Park"

Tunnels and underpass...

210 An adult, real-life "King of the Hill," complete with buckets of hot urine and feces dumped on the heads of the invaders below.
Posted by: LASue at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (lCppi)
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Gangs will take control of the causeways, shaking down the hobos for drugs and sex if they want to leave.

An elevated Chaz.

211 Is the bridge designed to accommodate rising sea levels?
Posted by: 2009Refugee
......

Another $10 million and I'll let you know next year.

212 The ones in banff are every mile or so I think. There are also really tall fences on the side of the highway to keep the critters from getting on the highway. There are a ton of elk and deer bears you name it around there. From a safety standpoint t it is a good idea, that must prevent a lot of car vs animal collisions.

Posted by: Heroq at March 18, 2026 06:19 PM (RD49f)

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In 2018 I had to fly into Bangor, Maine, rent a car in the early evening -- and drive as fast as I could overnight to Halifax Nova Scotia (funny, but long, story).

I was driving 85 MPH in the dark and terrified that if I hit a moose -- I would likely come through the windshield and I'd be dead. It was like a terrifying 10 hours ...

Only found out later that there were very tall chain link fences on both sides of the highways with tunnels underneath for the wildlife.

213 These government boondoggles are like Tom Hanks' "The Money Pit". Except the gov' fraud is 1000X worse, and the house/project never gets completed.

214 Honestly he is vapid and drugged up enough he'd be another Biden; a platform for the leftists to use to get power and money.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

See, the thing about Newsom is he's the most dangerous politician since Clinton. Both are sociopaths, which means they'll look you in the eye and lie and their heartrate doesn't change a bit. They tell lies to plump themselves up with certain groups, they tell lies that laughably disprovable, but never backtrack (no propaganda outlet would ask). Newsom actually claimed he grew up poor eating mac and cheese on the hardscrabble mean streets of Marin county. He bones his best friends wife. His wife sets up a "charity" then plunders the donations. Plus he's stupid, just like all you black folks.

215 So Jane was playing herself then

216 .
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Remember that ice skating rink in NYC?
.
Why doesn't PotUSvsg hand a few tens of millions to his son to oversee the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers building a bridge THAT WORKS a few hundred yards from Newsom's Not-a-bridge?
.

217 Couldn't they have just put a culvert under the highway?
Posted by: toby928(c)

I think they realize it would become hobo central, a fire would break out, and the freeway would be out of commission for months to fix it. Don't think it wouldn't have cost just as much though.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 18, 2026 06:22 PM (diia5)

Think the highway is a bit cut into the hill already, and they probably thought digging under was not going to work well. The one uncomplete side there looks like not a lot of room for a gentle slope. But the hills are very steep anyway in the area.

218 Houston did this at Memorial Park"

Tunnels and underpass...
Posted by: man at March 18, 2026 06:26 PM (XuXeR)

The top is basically a grass pedestrian bridge.

219 Pretty much all predators will eat someone else food if they can get them to leave it.



*Lions have entered the chat

220 How long until pot is planted all along the bridge?

221 There's at least one that I remember (maybe more) over I11/US93 SE of Hoover Dam (visible on Google earth at 35.970846,-114.683385.
There's some really fancy ones in Banff and Jasper Parks in Canada.
Building wildlife overpasses (and underpasses) is not a new or unique idea, so bleeding edge that it requires special attention by political hacks.
Graft, pure and simple.

222 See, the thing about Newsom is he's the most dangerous politician since Clinton. Both are sociopaths, which means they'll look you in the eye and lie and their heartrate doesn't change a bit. They tell lies to plump themselves up with certain groups, they tell lies that laughably disprovable, but never backtrack (no propaganda outlet would ask). Newsom actually claimed he grew up poor eating mac and cheese on the hardscrabble mean streets of Marin county. He bones his best friends wife. His wife sets up a "charity" then plunders the donations. Plus he's stupid, just like all you black folks.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 18, 2026 06:27 PM (cxFcK)

Bill is fairly smart and makes himself likable, Gavin is a dope and doesn't think he has to. I don't see him escaping the general 'not a Californian' bias in national elections.

223
Looks more like an ATV overpass for the local teenagers to pop the clutch on their dirt bikes to blast rooster tails of dirt and rocks over the edge during rush hour.

224 Only found out later that there were very tall chain link fences on both sides of the highways with tunnels underneath for the wildlife.
Posted by: ShainS



I'll bet the return trip was a lot easier.

225 Aw shaddup!

226 Cleaning public restrooms was a real eye-opener, I can tell you!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (xG4kz)

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I was surprised to learn here sometime in the past year or two from commenters who did that kind of work that the women's restrooms were generally always filthier than the men's.

227 See, the thing about Newsom is he's the most dangerous politician since Clinton. Both are sociopaths

Yes, but while Clinton is an intelligent sociopath, Newsome is genuinely stupid. He's charismatic, but dumb as dirt. Clinton's lies felt compelling, they seemed plausible, like the drunk's lies. Newsome's lies seem childish and idiotic, plainly false -- Kamala is the same way.

Clinton was compelling and lived his entire life to promote the lie. Newsome has been given a free lift his entire life and lies like Keanu Reeves playing Hamlet.

228 Its a boondoggle. Colorado, hardly a bastion of great financial stewardship buit an overpass over I-25 for 15 million.

from google AI. "The $15 million I-25 Greenland Wildlife Overpass in Douglas County, Colorado, completed in December 2025, is North America's largest wildlife overpass. Located near Larkspur between Castle Rock and Monument, this 209-by-200-foot bridge connects 39,000 acres of habitat across a busy interstate. It aims to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by 90% and aids elk, pronghorn, bear, and deer migration.

I think that one cost extra after the fact because Polis didn't correctly purchase the private land for it, so a landowner sued and got some sum for their property that was used. But saying they can't build a wildlife overpass for only 100+ million is bullshit

229 I understand you are critical of this bridge but the real cost is the signage. Multiple species will use this bridge and each must be informed of the proper usage and etiquette for the community of animals that will interact with the bridge.

230 NBC is going to be covering Chavez! After they tell us what a disaster the war is....


Who the fuck are they making that movie for?

How is that boring shit even a book?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (XCUp7)

It'd be funny if it morphed into something using more bullets than 'The Devil's Rejects.'

231 I'm watching the Star Trek episode Who Gods Destroy.

This is the prime example of the 10/10 on the Hot/Crazy matrix.

232 Is the bridge designed to accommodate rising sea levels?
Posted by: 2009Refugee
......

Another $10 million and I'll let you know next year.
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 06:26 PM (UjdFS)

I live pretty close to the area and my house is at a higher elevation above sea level than Ohio. It's about half hour to the coast maybe. But there is a range of 'mountains' between. A bit further south is the highest point in Ventura County.

233 I'm watching the Star Trek episode Who Gods Destroy.

This is the prime example of the 10/10 on the Hot/Crazy matrix.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:34 PM (oob1u)

"He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.

234 Bill is fairly smart and makes himself likable, Gavin is a dope and doesn't think he has to. I don't see him escaping the general 'not a Californian' bias in national elections.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:31 PM (8avO+)
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He was highly intelligent, and that made him very dangerous. His formulations, evasions and dissembling was a form of art.

Newsome is doesn't even remember his last lie and has the wit of a wet sponge. Like Harris, an environment where he faces serious, sustained questioning would destroy him.

235 I was surprised to learn here sometime in the past year or two from commenters who did that kind of work that the women's restrooms were generally always filthier than the men's.

That was my experience. I do not think it is because women are inherently more filthy than men -- far from it -- it is that its not where they live or are regularly so they kinda go nuts "at last I don't have to pick up after myself!"

236 How is that boring shit even a book?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (XCUp7)

It'd be funny if it morphed into something using more bullets than 'The Devil's Rejects.'
Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 06:34 PM (Sco7b)

"Inspired by...."

237 Lions need a huge territory. The young ones get driven out or killed by the older males. That area is already overpopulated, truthfully they shouldn't be there. There is not enough space for them, California is retarded. As a state Cal has way too many lions, they are constantly in the news eating someone or their pets.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (NtVYv)
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Yes, I'm north of LA, in the Paso Robles area and we have lots of goats killed by mountain lions. I'm not out in the country but 3 blocks from downtown and we have sightings here in my neighborhood.

238 California has pedestrian bridges over the freeways in about 210,000 spots. They could have just built a double-wide and left out the dirt....or will their little feetsies get hot?
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers
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A guy hauling heavy equipment didn’t read the sign and took out a pedestrian freeway bridge by our house. It was a steel one. They replaced it with a concrete one with special corn lights and all the bells and whistles. I think it only cost $20 million and took 3 years to build. I bet the steel one cost less that $100K.

239 229 I understand you are critical of this bridge but the real cost is the signage. Multiple species will use this bridge and each must be informed of the proper usage and etiquette for the community of animals that will interact with the bridge.
Posted by: Chicago Vota at March 18, 2026 06:33 PM (baPXJ)

How much is it going to cost to teach the animals to read?

Or to translate signs into all of the different animal languages/dialects?

240
[O/T -- Variety:] "Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in ‘As Deep as the Grave’ Movie — First Look (EXCLUSIVE)"

https://is.gd/wVWnmC

241 "Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in ‘As Deep as the Grave’ Movie — First Look (EXCLUSIVE)"

people who necromance people for movies need to be burned at the stake like the old days

242 "He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:35 PM (8avO+)

Hah. She said that almost at the same time you posted.

243 I was surprised to learn here sometime in the past year or two from commenters who did that kind of work that the women's restrooms were generally always filthier than the men's.

That was my experience. I do not think it is because women are inherently more filthy than men -- far from it -- it is that its not where they live or are regularly so they kinda go nuts "at last I don't have to pick up after myself!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:36 PM (PYyV9)

I'm still scarred from nearly 50 years ago experience but they don't help the situation by not having LARGE garbage cans in there instead of something tiny and thin in the stalls.

244 She blowed up real good.

245
Only found out later that there were very tall chain link fences on both sides of the highways with tunnels underneath for the wildlife.
Posted by: ShainS



We used to pull guard duty at the post ammo storage dump in Alaska. The moose had been moved out and 12-15 foot chainlink fences surrounded the mountain, with the closed and 24/7 guarded gate being the only access. The moose still got in, probably by jumping the fence.

Rumors that us infantry guards would chase the moose through the snow in GSA pickup trucks while screaming at the stupid ungulates are lies. Lies, I tell you.

246 "He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:35 PM (8avO+)

Hah. She said that almost at the same time you posted.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:39 PM (oob1u)

I do enjoy your trek posts a lot.

247 they don't help the situation by not having LARGE garbage cans in there instead of something tiny and thin in the stalls.

Yeah one place I worked lined them with a paper lunchbag. It was... insufficient

248 Oh the orion girl yep

249 Meanwhile gas here is $5.89 a gallon..

250 I'm disappointed PlutoTV doesn't have DS9.

In a lot of ways, that was an amazing series.


NBC is covering Chavez now. 'NBC has not spoken with any of the women."

Or Chavez....

251
"He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:35 PM (8avO+)



Who has control of the Cat-to-Hooman Translator?

252 How much is it going to cost to teach the animals to read?

Or to translate signs into all of the different animal languages/dialects?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth


I called dibs on the governmental program.

253 NBC is covering Chavez now. 'NBC has not spoken with any of the women."

Or Chavez....
Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 06:44 PM (Sco7b)

So have they released the part yet where Trump and him were best buddies ?

254 We know what she spent some of the money on:

https://t.co/Nlul5Pyh1t

255 How about squirrel *boris badanov voice,

256 "He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.
Posted by: Oldcat

Somewhere in the distance a dog barked...

257 The total avg yearly cost that Caki drivers pay is just about the same as the national avg.
Why? B red cause the only drive 11000 miles per year less than the 14000 national avg and because they driver newer more fuel efficient cars and EVs getting the best mpg in the nation at 33.5 mpg drivers in montana and Wyoming pay about 200,% more yearly in fuel more miles and less fuel efficiency

258 WTF did the troll just say ?

259 Nude quickies

260 WTF did the troll just say ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2026 06:49 PM (VE6XX)

its shrouded in mystery.

261 We were watching a practicalengineering video last night about the incredible creation of the LA aqueduct. They started in 1908 and it took five years. Five years in 1908 to build a 233 mile long aqueduct.

From Wikipedia:

"The original project consisted of 24 mi (39 km) of open unlined canal, 37 mi (60 km) of lined open canal, 97 mi (156 km) of covered concrete conduit, 43 mi (69 km) of concrete tunnels, 12.00 mi (19.31 km) steel siphons, 120 mi (190 km) of railroad track, two hydroelectric plants, three cement plants, 170 mi (270 km) of power lines, 240 mi (390 km) of telephone line, 500 mi (800 km) of roads and was later expanded with the construction of the Mono Extension and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct."

Five years.

262 258 WTF did the troll just say ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2026 06:49 PM (VE6XX)


Something about "Aliensshitinmymouth"....

263 249 Meanwhile gas here is $5.89 a gallon..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2026 06:43 PM (VE6XX)

In Windsor Ontario, it was over $6 US a gallon. Converted by AI.

264 I guess I’m just retarded, but why not just bridge the road instead and let the critters pass under?

265 Washington state has horrible problems, but even Washington was able to build a bridge like that in under four years and for about $6.2 million. I have driven under it.

https://tinyurl.com/7d39vhyc

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Just the News: US Intelligence Officials Hid Evidence That China Interfered in the 2020 Presidential Election on Biden's Behalf

They hid this evidence from the Commander in Chief and President, Donald John Trump.

Are we at treason yet?

Jerry Dunleavy:

US Intel hid Chinese 2020 election meddling from Trump because they opposed his policies, memo says

Dr. Barry A. Zulauf, a member of the Senior National Intelligence Service reported that others in the intelligence community said "I don't want my intelligence going to the White House where it will be used by that vulgarian in the Oval Office to support policies against China with which I personally disagree."

Analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese influence efforts from President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, with analysts saying they didn't want their intel used by "that vulgarian in the Oval Office" to pursue policies toward China they personally disagreed with.

The revelation is found within a January 2021 report written by -- and never before reported upon comments by -- analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf, who conducted a review of the spy community's handling of Russian versus Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. Among his conclusions was that intelligence analysts downplayed China's actions because they had disdain for the "vulgarian" Trump and did not want to support the policies and priorities of the Trump administration toward China with which they "personally disagree."

Just the News reported this week that the U.S. intelligence community has known since early 2020 that Beijing also gained access to American voter registration data and used that information to conduct opinion analysis related to the presidential election between Trump and then-former Vice President Joe Biden.

This is not the only piece of evidence pointing to Chinese government election influence efforts in the 2020 election. Although much about China's activities in 2020 remains classified, Just the News conducted a thorough review of publicly-available intelligence assessments, federal indictments, foreign government warnings, and cybersecurity firm analyses.

There is credible evidence that Chinese government-linked cyber hackers and Chinese social media troll farms took aim at the U.S. presidential election in 2020 and sought to undercut Trump during his run against now-former President Biden. There are also indicators that Chinese intelligence and law enforcement agencies -- China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) and its Ministry of Public Security (MPS) -- also played a role in 2020.

He found that actions taken by Russia would be claimed by analysts to be election interference, while the exact same actions taken by China would be ruled as no interference at all -- all depending on the political narratives favored by highly partisan "intelligence analysts."

He doesn't say that last part, but it's implicit.

Zulauf -- a longtime intelligence officer -- wrote in his January 2021 report: "Given analytic differences in the way Russia and China analysts examined their targets, China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the Administration's policies, saying in effect, I don't want our intelligence used to support those policies."

U.S. intel analysts downplayed China assessments to avoid helping Trump

...

"Dr. Zulauf went on to point out the various errors in this way of thinking -- intelligence belongs to the community, not a single analyst, and further, while analysts are entitled to like or dislike particular leaders, they are not entitled to allow that to alter the intelligence products that they put forward," the journal article said.

The review by Zulauf also found that allegations of Russian meddling and Chinese meddling were being measured based on differing standards, meaning Russia may have taken actions that were determined to be influence or interference efforts while, if and when China took the same or similar actions, those Chinese actions likely would not have been determined to be influence or interference efforts.

"Due to varying collection and insight into hostile state actors' leadership intentions and domestic election influence campaigns, the definitional use of the terms 'influence' and 'interference' and associated confidence levels are applied differently by the China and Russia analytic communities," Zulauf wrote in his report.

The ombudsman found that "the terms were applied inconsistently across the analytic community" and that "failing to explain properly these definitions is inconsistent with Tradecraft Standards."

Oh, and out treasonous Deep State also hid information that Ukraine was using US taxpayer dollars to rig the election in Biden's favor.

HUGE: U.S. intelligence reports show that not only China was helping Joe Biden steal the 2020 election, but new intel shows that Ukraine was also helping Biden steal the 2020 election using the BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars that we sent over there from hard working Americans.… pic.twitter.com/vZW870UGH2

— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) March 17, 2026